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  1. strickn
    1.4 miles due north of The Cannon (West Houston) coworking complex. Very bikeable at least distance-wise
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    Two mansions with their own private park grounds are for sale in Beaumont's beautiful West End, and one of them is a 1935 mansion by John Staub that used to house the city's art museum. https://www.har.com/homedetail/2550-ashley-st-beaumont-tx-77702/4400530 https://www.har.com/homedetail/5975-calder-ave-beaumont-tx-77706/9206018
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    Although the proximity to BCM is important, long term I think that the old Saint Lukes complex is worth more being sold at a high price to TCH and/or to UTMDACC when it comes time to heavily renovate it or to demolish those buildings. But, in addition to the inpatient tower and faculty office spaces, I imagine that the Texas Heart Institute would need to be able to move too. Proximity to TMC Helix Park may soon become equally important.
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    A novel definition of houston proper as the urban development footprint of the skylines (minus the peripheral Greenspoint, Woodlands, Westchase and Memorial City skylines)
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    BHP (headquartered in Melbourne) spun off its petroleum division this year, and it merged with an Australian company www.woodside.com, hence the new signage atop 1500 Post Oak. But Woodside has not put its headquarters in 1500 Post Oak (please correct me if I'm wrong).
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    And 825,000 square feet for 108 ginormous apartments is also in error. Even supposing they were to build that, $7.5MM would be less than $10/foot when one would expect $250+
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    To help muddy the crystal lagoon waters, Related Companies and Related Group are now competitors. Source: https://therealdeal.com/miami/2022/12/07/billionaire-ross-confirms-split-with-perez-as-both-firms-expand-in-south-florida/ Unrelated!
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    Ok thanks
  9. strickn
    Nothing to see here, drive along: https://www.google.com/maps/place/5345+Woodway+Dr,+Houston,+TX+77056/@29.7632013,-95.4701623,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640c153da128251:0x140e193dddd8ee01!8m2!3d29.7632013!4d-95.4701623 And Riverside Terrace, block with no bayou views: https://www.google.com/maps/place/3722+Rio+Vista+St,+Houston,+TX+77021/@29.7075413,-95.3589964,20z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640bfb6ee3c4c7d:0xbc6ba556690ee2ac!8m2!3d29.7075633!4d-95.3590566!16s%2Fg%2F11cph5c3zb
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    Nice! Southwest corner with Rosedale St: looks like it was possibly not demolished until between 2004 and 2009 -- maybe a Google Street View or two still available if towards the latter year. Crispest aerial photos in 1962, 1966, and 2002 on https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer
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    After 5750 Main, it is the 2nd-closest home to Mecom Fountain circle at the north corner of Hermann Park. Third-closest just sold a few months ago (3 Remington Ln).
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    thousand, I guess! Bob Dylan was still knee high to a twerp in those days, fifty years before playing there
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    Succumbed to a superblock: https://www.google.com/maps/place/2310+Baldwin+St,+Houston,+TX+77006/@29.7501107,-95.3790474,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640bf420db773f3:0xf076155052dafd31!8m2!3d29.7501107!4d-95.3790474
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    https://www.google.com/maps/place/2115+Wichita+St,+Houston,+TX+77004/@29.7238618,-95.377175,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640bf9e7b02ab3f:0xec6ddd1422afb1c5!8m2!3d29.7238618!4d-95.377175 https://www.google.com/maps/place/3615+Parkwood+Dr,+Houston,+TX+77021/@29.7076128,-95.3611822,14z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640bfb712d0f1a1:0x6aefa847285ddef8!8m2!3d29.7076128!4d-95.3611822!16s%2Fg%2F11c5lwndrq https://www.google.com/maps/place/2333+Underwood+St,+Houston,+TX+77030/@29.699656,-95.412159,14z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640c014e2c97b67:0x17b0319404f63b51!8m2!3d29.699656!4d-95.412159!16s%2Fg%2F11c1f0pd7n
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    Just a strip mall shopping center across from a Fiesta now, between Polk and Lawndale, along Wortham Park: https://www.google.com/maps/place/900+S+Wayside+Dr,+Houston,+TX+77023/@29.7174807,-95.3110928,14z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640be801d92354f:0xa5d7c61376377b03!8m2!3d29.7299665!4d-95.3103066!16s%2Fg%2F11gxwqy3dg
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    And if I were a cohousing investor I wonder if these two tracts on Clinton would represent a good opportunity to leverage the Japhet and FarMart proximity for more urban intown cohousing expansion
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    However, I believe the 4720 Clinton broker listing regarding the southeast corner quadrant of Hirsh and Clinton's intersection has highlit an inaccurate land parcel area. If their parcel actually extended as far west toward the east side of Hirsh as they draw it, they would have 25 acres, not just 12. Probably it stops at Emile Street and does not include the land of the grassroots coliving micro-hood behind Japhet Creek Park -- Which, BTW, would be my definite pick over the expensive "Houston's first coliving complex" in EaDo.
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    Not the same parcel, but another one nearby is also being marketed currently https://property.jll.com/listings/4720-clinton-drive-4720-clinton-dr-not-tracked-texas
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    Despite the Italian finishes, the marketing caption in the prior post read "la dulce vita" in Spanish rather than "dolce vita" in Italian, so perhaps the extra remaining market for Latin American condo investors to Houston was the target market and perhaps it has been smaller than the developer had anticipated
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    Some interesting animal-proof panelized (galvanized?) metal fence units have been introduced lately on the perimeter fence lines of substations getting upgraded. Please post if you know what the name & manufacturer of this product is and where to buy it. Thanks
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    2 years on, have they filled up yet? If not, why not?
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    https://realtynewsreport.com/energy-firm-moving-headquarters/ not sure if this non-paywalled article is plagiarized or not, but it sounds like they currently lease 210,000 square feet in Westchase and 524,000 in Uptown, and will be consolidating into an “early renewal and expansion” totaling 328,000 in Westchase. Unless I’m misunderstanding, that’s a 55% drop in total square footage.
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    If property owners consistently come back to car traffic, unshadowed views, unobstructed views, noise level, local character, air quality, drainage, and water quality -- roughly in that order -- when these things arise, then that's a useful hierarchy. If they tend to organize in groups in order to try to externalize those costs in order to get the added market value without being contractually obligated for it, then two solutions present themselves. Concerned citizens might be willing to pay surcharges for offloading each of the local development nuisances to another part of the city, up to the point at which it's not worth it to them to pay another benjamin rather than just accept a little more traffic or high-rise construction in the neighborhood. Those payments will not be spread out over the whole city's tax base, however. They will accrue to the neighborhoods that are accepting the increases in square footage. On the other hand they might acknowledge that they want these resources/nuisances wastefully allocated rather than responsibly allocated because they thought there was a political mechanism to step outside the property value system and game it. If they don't want the allocation management to be rigged, then people who buy property shouldn't expect control over through traffic easement unless some offsite control of it is explicit in the title deed of the property they bought, and expect to explicitly pay more for it in the bidding process. In the long run, whether it's priced in in that way or on an annual basis, this "MAX Lane" approach would streamline and make things simpler in the development process than "move out if you don't like change cuz cities change." In particular, it would directly erase the informal, invisible fee transfers that annually raise the market valuation of access to property in a quiet (but politically vocal) wealthy enclave in the form of offloaded nuisances. It would continue to encourage the property value gains that come from sheer prime location and local growth, without damaging those. And it would lower the lure of free-riding since it uses the development nuisance offset payments to 'net out' that ownership incentive with every other part of the local city or county at the same time.
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    "Museo Institute" doesn’t turn up anything as a search term on map apps yet. The old Mann Eye Center block across the street, at 5115 Main, though, is roped off. Maybe it’s vacated and to be prepped for demolition for the next phase already?
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